Thunderbird Club

[GonePlaid]

Quite the color indeed !

There's this:

 

[PillO]

There's this:
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[Bassmike62]

 

[Bassmike62]

Finally got around ordering these for the Explorer and the Thunderbird IV.
Still aiming to swap the Explorer pups for those used in Thunderbirds, but that will wait for now. Chinabuckers come highly recommended, I also saw passive EMGs in my price range and I think Seymour Duncans also. We'll see.

 

[GBassNorth]

Saunders (don't know his 1st name) attempted to produce basses in the late '80s but didn't last long. Little is known but it appears he made two models; Concord I and Concord II. (one & two pu versions I'll presume) I found that NOS neck on eBay many years ago for a great price, as it it a quality P-style neck. I later learned they were made (commissioned by Saunders) in the newly created Fender Custom Shop. ('86). I bid on another neck like it later but was outbid and haven't seen another since. Then recently, a tb member sent me pics of his newly acquired Saunders Concord I. Perhaps it was the colour that derailed his attempts at selling them...

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I had a mustard stain on a tee shirt that looked a lot like that bass.

 

[Chucky Stiletti]

From a looks standpoint, I love the boldness of the red strings with the dark wood neck, but can't get past the clash in different shades of red with the body. That said, I don't like the looks of the Black Beauties at all, and that's odd because I would have thought they would have pulled the black hardware together with the red body nicely. I'm of the mind now that Silver Stars might be the perfect look for that bass.

Of course the more important thing is how they sound and feel, but they might all be fairly close in that regard since they are all coated DR strings. I haven't tried the reds but I did find the BB strings to be a hair brighter in sound than Silver Stars but not by much.


Ditto - I'm finding that my Greco II delivers a massive gut punch exceeding any P bass I've played or owned. Not sure if it's any different than a soloed neck pup on a Greco IV but I'm sure tempted to add a IV to the arsenal just to find out. Here she is in all her nearly 45 year old mojo glory...
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already been offered more for the pups than I paid for the bass...

 

[GBassNorth]

already been offered more for the pups than I paid for the bass...

makes sense. The magic in the Greco is the pups. The rest of the bass is pretty standard Gibby/Eppi fare.

 

[MCF]

Agreed - from the brother band who fired me twice! (my bass-line by the way) I "inspired" him to write it after I brought Hero's in to play... (we were working on it with Bond Girl) Johnny would say he 'communicated' with (David Bowie) to come up with a song about him.

Uh, okay....Johnny sounds “interesting.”

 

[GonePlaid]

Uh, okay....Johnny sounds “interesting.”

There's 'that' word again.

 

[MCF]

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Doesn’t that hurt?

 

[GonePlaid]

Doesn’t that hurt!

Prolly not. I don't think watermelons have nerve endings.

 

[MCF]

My ever vigilant SW rep informed me that the NRs are in their system as of this AM. He assures me I’ll get one. They are looking at the latter part of June. So if you are going to buy one for sure, let your SW rep know so you’re in the loop when orders are placed.

 

[Gaolee]

Saunders (don't know his 1st name) attempted to produce basses in the late '80s but didn't last long. Little is known but it appears he made two models; Concord I and Concord II. (one & two pu versions I'll presume) I found that NOS neck on eBay many years ago for a great price, as it it a quality P-style neck. I later learned they were made (commissioned by Saunders) in the newly created Fender Custom Shop. ('86). I bid on another neck like it later but was outbid and haven't seen another since. Then recently, a tb member sent me pics of his newly acquired Saunders Concord I. Perhaps it was the colour that derailed his attempts at selling them...

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I like it a lot. Which means it's unlikely to sell to anybody else.

 

[Engle]

These echo-y, dirge-y songs/performances were very characteristic of that period. You just don't hear that anymore. It's very emotive/introspective (yah, I know - pot helped in this respect) but honestly - it's like modern audiences can't handle "deep" music anymore. sad

This is something I’ve been thinking about. I’m attempting to “produce” some of my reggae band’s music. On one of the tracks I found some cool Clav bits in a keyboard part and I looped them for a few bars as a pre-intro. Then there’s an intro. Arranging it like that means the chorus doesn’t happen until quite a bit further into the song than it should by modern production “rules”.

I’ve decided to just arrange it as a piece of music, rather than worrying about listeners with short attention spans needing to be hooked in the first 10 seconds.

 

[GonePlaid]

This is something I’ve been thinking about. I’m attempting to “produce” some of my reggae band’s music. On one of the tracks I found some cool Clav bits in a keyboard part and I looped them for a few bars as a pre-intro. Then there’s an intro. Arranging it like that means the chorus doesn’t happen until quite a bit further into the song than it should by modern production “rules”.

I’ve decided to just arrange it as a piece of music, rather than worrying about listeners with short attention spans needing to be hooked in the first 10 seconds.

There's a ship(sp?)load of songs that are/were hits that you'll see have had the intros truncated when you get to hear the 'album' version as opposed to the 2:45 on the radidio.

 

[BklynKen]

There's a ship(sp?)load of songs that are/were hits that you'll see have had the intros truncated when you get to hear the 'album' version as opposed to the 2:45 on the radidio.

And then Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is an entire album.

 

[GonePlaid]

And then Jethro Tull's Thick as a Brick is an entire album.

"How do we edit this for A.M. radio??"

 

[JIO]

Jimi was from Seattle, not Texas.

Oh right - what was I thinking...

 

[Engle]

I didn't look up his Bio, but if Jimi ever played a gig in, oh, IDK, Dallas, for instance, and his next gig was in, let's say, Oshkosh, then it could be said he was from Texas. splitting hairs is a bitc..., er, difficult

The Experience actually had some really crazy touring schedules. Chas Chandler just booked them wherever he could without considering how large America is.

 

[Engle]

There's a ship(sp?)load of songs that are/were hits that you'll see have had the intros truncated when you get to hear the 'album' version as opposed to the 2:45 on the radidio.

After the drummer and I complained about the “pop” production our keyboard player was applying to the tracks, we decided he should keep going in that direction and I’ll produce the same songs my way, with real instruments.